We are accepting proposals to complete a panel on Virginia Woolf andclothing currently titled "Clothing as Boundary in the Works of VirginiaWoolf." Of special interest to us is how clothing thematizeslimits/boundaries or examines the intersection of clothing/boundary interms of barriers and limits both IN and OF Woolf's work.

We invite papers involving Woolf's own exploration of clothing not onlyin terms of symbol and substance (or matter and metaphor), but alsoclothing as physical, psychological and ideological boundary betweenindividuals or groups that can be-or fail to be-negotiated. In keepingwith this year's conference themes, we invite paper proposals thatanalyze Woolf's use of "clothing as boundary" in relation to: a) thepresent and the past, b) genders and sexualities, c) modernity andtradition, d) the metropolis and the region, e) nationhood andpatriotism, f) war and colonialism, g) social class and race, h) theelite and the common, i) urban and rural, j) insiders and outsiders, k)industrialization and work, l) women and men, or, m) any intersection[s]of the above.

Please email one copy of a 250 word proposal and a short bio paragraphto Randi Synnove Koppen [Randi.Koppen_at_eng.uib.no]and Catherine R.Mintler [cmintler_at_unr.edu] by December 10th. The deadline for panelproposals to be submitted is January 4th, 2006.